[sldev] Re: Reformatting Textures for the cache

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Fri Mar 23 22:15:03 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:01 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> The overhead of a relational database is much much higher than the  
> overhead of plain disk files for bulk data like images, and internal  
> fragmentation is a much bigger problem than disk fragmentation. In  
> fact disk fragmentation has not been a significant problem on most  
> operating systems introduced in the last 20 years. Windows, of  
> course, is the big exception to that rule. :p

Near as I can tell, NTFS actually does a passable job at avoiding
fragmentation.

People using FAT are SOL but that goes without saying.
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